Datacenter Firewall Overview

Applies To: Windows Server Technical Preview

Datacenter Firewall is a new service included with Windows Server® 2016 Technical Preview. It is a network layer, 5-tuple (protocol, source and destination port numbers, source and destination IP addresses), stateful, multitenant firewall. When deployed and offered as a service by the service provider, tenant administrators can install and configure firewall policies to help protect their virtual networks from unwanted traffic originating from Internet and intranet networks.

The service provider administrator or the tenant administrator can manage the Datacenter Firewall policies via the network controller and the northbound APIs.

The Datacenter Firewall offers the following advantages for cloud service providers:

A highly scalable, manageable, and diagnosable software-based firewall solution that can be offered to tenants